Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

In a few months, we'll be kicking off our very own Patreon where you'll be able to get even more detailed and comprehensive dev blogs that include first looks at new models, inside access to previously unrevealed characters and NPCs, and a glimpse into how our programmers, artists, modelers, and animators do their thang.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In today's issue, you'll get an update on all the custom 3D assets we've been working on for the capital city of Nisar, plus a peek into our process for creating a fully functional facial rig for our female main character. Ideally, the Hair shader can be used again once Joe has a better understanding of how the tool works.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

We created 4 UV sets of each car and wrote a shader that swaps them. What’s more, it’s easy to imitate movement by creating a simple animation, as we did in the booster’s model. Creating animations for animals wasn’t an easy part. Adjusting mesh, rig and skinning needed a couple of iterations. Track components .

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

There are three main components to making a digital human, and each of these requires a different combination of art and technologies: generation, animation , and intelligence. To generate digital humans, teams must first make 3D models, textures, shaders, skeleton rig, and deformation of the skin so it follows the skeleton.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Writes shaders, writes scripts, works with code. Builds, adjusts, and maintains animation skeletons for animators to make motions with. Sometimes called “ technical animator ”. Animator : [ Sculptor of time ]. Takes the rigs built by the riggers and manipulates them so they can convey believable motion over time.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It's much faster and we can instantly see the effects as we modify the shader. Demo: Character rigging using Skeleton2D | Matejs Balodis. A quick demo on how to set up, rig and animate a 2D character in Godot Engine using 2D meshes and the Skeleton2D node. All that happens on the CPU.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

Soon, Fede will be experimenting with our custom fur shader and working with hair cards to create realistic fur for these toothy baddies. Rodrigo also added an animated Game Save/Loading icon too, which we ultimately ended up changing to a blue hue (vs. link] Rigging / Animation. Here are some shots of Fede's WIP.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs over the past couple issues, you'll know that we've been working hard to come up with a way to create realistic-looking fur for our various animal-like characters. During his first official pass, Pete was finally able to make the textures and shaders work in tandem. Convenient, right?

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 13, 2023

Having control over all technical aspects of the shaders allowed me to art direct the scene as a whole. As I was populating the scene, I was either creating new material functions to implement into my master material, modifying shader properties to be integrated into the scene, or modifying assets directly in Blender.

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